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Humanitarian Crises
Week in pictures: From Russian election to Nepal plane crash
A photo round-up of some of last week’s events, including gun control protests in US and fighting in Syria’s Afrin.
A child sleeps in a bag in the village of Beit Sawa in Syria's Eastern Ghouta. [Omar Sanadiki/Reuters]
Published On 16 Mar 2018
16 Mar 2018
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Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko picks up the hat of a military soldier as he and Austrian President Alexander van der Bellen review the honor guard during a welcome ceremony ahead of their meeting in Kiev, Ukraine. [Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo]
Students rally outside the Capitol building in Washington, DC. Students walked out of school to protest gun violence a month after 17 people were killed at Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. [Andrew Harnik/AP Photo]
Nepalese rescuers work amid the debris after a passenger plane from Bangladesh crashed at the airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, killing at least 49 people. [Niranjan Shreshta/AP Photo]
Members of a local indigenous community in Russia gather near a sheet with information about presidential candidates inside a yurt tent during the early voting period in remote areas of the country. [Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters]
Primary school students wear virtual reality (VR) headsets inside a classroom in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hunan province, China. [Reuters]
A Palestinian boy lies in a makeshift bed inside his family's shelter in the Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank. [Mohamad Torokman /Reuters]
A Balinese Hindu worshiper attempts to stab himself with traditional Kris daggers while in trance during Melasti, a purification ceremony ahead of the holy day of Nyepi on a beach in Gianyar, Bali, Indonesia. [Johannes P Christo/Reuters]
People flee after Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army fighters captured Khaldieh village in eastern Afrin, Syria. [Khalil Ashawi/Reuters]
People protest against the government at a rally organised by students during Hungary's National Day celebrations, which also commemorates the 1848 Hungarian Revolution against the Habsburg monarchy, in Budapest, Hungary. [Marko Djurica/Reuters]